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Image of a male wooden doll carved by renowned Pleasant Hill woodcarver and dollmaker Polly Page. This would be an "Uncle Pink" signature doll. Page carved the characters of "Aunt Jenny and Uncle Pink" to represent local pioneer figures.

Rustic handmade wooden wheelbarrow with a metal wheel used by Emanuel Dupree in his workyard is pictured. Dupree, a third generation white oak basket maker and chair bottomer or caner, describes in his contributions to the project the processes...

Audio files of Hardin County resident Jim Caldwell recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. Caldwell conveys stories of his personal and family history. He describes the methods of one of his occupations, water-witching or...

Audio files of Fentress County residents Dee Hicks and Delta Hicks recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. The Hicks family relates family stories and anecdotes involving hunting, fishing, farming, and cooking.

Published image identified as the main highway looking south in Norene, Tennessee. The town was formerly Henderson's Crossroads; its name was changed to Norene in 1918. The dirt road is flanked by the town's post office and Gulf gas station in...

Audio files of Fayette County resident Emanuel Dupree recorded as part of the Tennessee State Park Folklife Project. Dupree, a third generation white oak basket maker and chair bottomer, describes the processes and how he learned. This African...

T.J. Box is pictured astride a horse, aiming a handgun at the camera. He traveled to the "promised land" of California for the first time in July of 1936 and stayed until November of 1937. He would return to California in 1940.

Audio files of Fentress County residents Dee Hicks and Delta Hicks recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. The Hicks family relates family stories and anecdotes involving hunting, fishing, farming, and cooking.

Soapmakers from Whiteville are pictured demonstrating the making of lye soap in front of Chickasaw State Park program spectators. Maxine Wachstein can be seen stirring the soap mixture and preparing to pour the soap into milk cartons to harden. ...

Audio files of Fentress County residents Dee Hicks and Delta Hicks recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. The Hicks family relates family stories and anecdotes involving hunting, fishing, farming, and cooking.

Large Butterfly quilt hanging from a clothesline. The quilt has alternating blocks of light and dark green set on point, so they appear as diamonds. A butterfly with brown-and-tan-checked wings is appliqued within each light green square.

T.J. Box is pictured propped against a rural fence holding his guitar. He traveled to the "promised land" of California for the first time in July of 1936 and stayed until November of 1937. He returned to California in 1940.

Mr. McKinley Mackie is pictured seated in a chair at his residence in the Fairfield Community of Cumberland County. Mackie, his wife, and family produce handmade quilts. The couple also own a single-room log pen structure near Ozone, Tennessee...

Audio files of Henderson County resident T.J. Box, "Uncle Jake," recorded as part of the Tennessee State Parks Folklife Project. Box relates details of his personal history and travels, recounts baseball stories, and supplies recitations and...